Darren wrote:Having pretty much watched the first two disc (skimmed The Fear Merchants, Bird Who knew too much as they fail to entertain), the first episode to make me go wow in terms of quality was The Living Dead.
I know you say you only skimmed two episodes, but did you notice the reported sound faults?
On Roobarbs several people have reported a strange "speeded up" or pitch-shifted effect not present on previous releases of the episodes on VHS or DVD:
"I've just received my set, and to me there seems to be a sound problem... I put on the first disc, just to look at what it was like, and went to extras first to see the Brian intros(why these aren't linked like the Blackman ones is odd)anyway, then decided to have a quick look at BIRD, and to my ears the early scene where steed and emma look at the body sounds slightly speeded up, squeeky, and mainly her. so decided to watch FEAR, and indeed their voices do sound rather(on my disc obviously) slightly up a notch. it seems to be mainly scenes with steed and emma, in FEAR I noticed it again when they are at her carving. now I have got rid of the contender set(fool!) so couldn't compare with that. but I do have the briefcase video box set, so hooked my video up and watched corresponding scenes, and on the video, no squeeky sounds. its a slightly higher pitch than should be to my ears on the new discs, the video sounds right, abeit being on video. very odd.... "
"They do sound awfully squeaky in BIRD. Can't say as I noticed it on the other two episodes though. "
"I have just tried several others on different discs and there is a definite fault, unless of course Patrick really sounds like Liberace. 26mins in to Positive Negative Man, scene where steed appears at emma's appartment to discuss morton(?) he sounds too high pitched. and he sounds like Liberace on the other two episodes aswell in places. the funny thing is, if you watch the videoed the avengers a retrospective, he sounds normal, so what has canal plus done????? and even though I haven't the contender dvd's to compare, he definately didn't sound like Liberace on those. "